Sunk cost effect.

Yeah, we should send the little guy back to the Congo so the locals can eat him.

Send your username and password to me and I'll check for you.

Whatever else you may think of Lamo one thing is abundantly clear: he's untrustworthy.

No mystery; From the article :

"the learnings (sic) Apple gains from building the 32nm A5 will pay off later this year as Apple ramps up production of a 32nm SoC for use in the next iPhone."

They're further developing their A5 and ramping up production by introducing it first in an existing product. Smart.

They're bureaucrats, they want something nice and official. File a piece of paper in triplicate, get a recorded conversation. Nothing too messy, error prone and work intensive. If you have to do the work and you fail, it's your ass but if it's nice and bureaucratic you can blame "the process."

Sure, but we do have a better health plan ;-)

I think the word you're looking for is "ruthless", not evil.

If you think about how much of the worlds most critical data is being managed by Oracle software they have a much better track record than the privacy control evading, personal information snooping, data mining Google.

Yeah, that's like saying you're still a virgin if you practice "coitus interrupts."